KISS frontman Gene Simmons presumably would have followed Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign closely, given that he vocally supported the former candidate, but one major error committed by the Republican party nominee must have slipped his radar – because he just repeated it.

In an interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune, Simmons defended his one percent-er status, saying that without his ilk, “there would be chaos.”

“I have been part of the 1 percent for the past 30 years… It’s fantastic!” he said. “The 1 percent pays 80 percent of all taxes. Fifty percent of the population of the U.S. pays no taxes. The 1 percent provides all the jobs for everybody else. If the 1 percent didn’t exist, there would be chaos and the American economy would drop dead. Try being nice to rich people. I don’t remember the last poor person who gave me a job.”

Where exactly did Simmons get the statistic “fifty percent of the population of the U.S. pays no taxes”? Maybe he took Romney’s controversial statistic that 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax – which, it’s been estimated, in part cost him the election– as fact. But Simmons erroneously one-upped Romney, and then some, by saying that half of the nation pays no taxes at all.

The Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler took it upon himself to fact-check Simmons’ statement and claims his understanding of how taxes work is flawed. “Simmons may enjoy the 1 percent lifestyle, but he needs to get his facts straight,” Kessler wrote. “The top 1 percent certainly pays a large share of taxes (and has a large share of income) but his claims are wildly off-base, especially when talking about ‘all taxes.’”